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In one of my previous posts I had shared with you my experience attending the online auction conference organized by eBay at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

Ever since, I have always had some thought and ambition that one day I will be able to start something with eBay online auction. However, until now, I still do not have a clear plan on how to proceed. The main stumbling block is to actually decide what product I am going to sell on eBay. I actually did come up with a couple of possible products but after thinking through it, I am back to drawing board. Like I said, I would not want to jump into the boat blindly without proper planning and clear business plan as this online eBay business is not as straight forward. There are a lot of things to think through before getting my feet wet in the business.

In the course of evaluating eBay, I came across a couple of interesting findings about eBay.

The first one is that you can actually customise the way your eBay web pages look like. The options available are quite interesting. Of course you can hire a full fledge web graphic designer to customize your eBay site but that would actually cost you some money, not to mention the it itakes to discuss your requirements and translate them into webpage design.

Another option is to utilize a ready made template. If you dont mind to spend some money on a ready made template, you could get your site up and running in no time with quite an exclusive auction page. However there is yet another option for you to consider, and that is to make use of free auction templates, which are abundant in the world wide web.

I think as a start, it makes sense to experiment with free auction templates first to get things moving in the right direction, and then decide whether to stick with free auction templates or to spend some money on paid auction templates. Only you can make that decision based on your experience experimenting with the free auction tamplates.

The second thing I like to share is about the scam at eBaY. While majority of Internet Marketers on eBay earn money through legitimate online auction business practice, there is always a black sheep in the business. The case of misleading customer on eBay, such as described in my previous posting about PS3 email being sold on eBay under the pretext of selling a PS3 game machine is quite worrying. In any case, I would suggest you stay away from the seller site and keep looking for you other option on eBay.

I should also mention that I have received numerous emails from supposedly eBay buyers telling me that they have not received the item the had purchased from me while in fact I hadn’t even list anything for sale on eBay yet.

So despite all the good and bright prospects presented by eBay online auction business model, you still have to be alert and not fall into the scam.

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